Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Northumberland County, Pennsylvania had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.49 times the US outage time per person and 0.66 times the Pennsylvania rate. It ranks 50 of 65 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 15, 2019, reached 9,990 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	39,556	29	0
2016	56,994	49	0
2017	126,910	76	3
2018	156,590	71	3
2019	186,359	73	4
2020	112,698	69	3
2021	95,200	70	3
2022	99,741	69	4
2023	97,833	63	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Apr 15, 2019	43.5	9,990	67,783
May 15, 2018	37.2	6,648	43,139
Oct 31, 2019	33.5	13,054	42,881
Aug 27, 2020	26.5	4,394	35,289
Mar 27, 2017	10.8	7,277	24,856

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.